The Russian government is looking to arrest the head of Ukrainian intelligence for his alleged role in last October’s sabotage of the bridge between the Crimea and Ukraine. Meanwhile, a NATO report says that Russia has already set explosives on Europe’s undersea pipelines and cables.
In other news, an elderly man in France was hit by a train after being pushed off a platform onto the tracks by an illegal migrant.
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Job Growth Totals 253,000 in April, Beating Expectations Even as the U.S. Economy Slows
Job growth fared better than expected in April despite bank turmoil and a decelerating economy, the Labor Department reported Friday.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 253,000 for the month, beating Wall Street estimates for growth of 180,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The unemployment rate was 3.4% against an estimate for 3.6% and tied for the lowest level since 1969. A more encompassing number that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons edged lower to 6.6%.
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“Consider it a Fake, Even if it’s Not” — FBI Accused of Assisting Ukraine With Facebook Censorship
The FBI has been pressuring Facebook and other platforms to censor misinformation on behalf of Ukraine, even when the information is not necessarily untrue, according to a report by independent journalist Lee Fang.
Fang learned about the FBI’s alleged role in the censorship after interviewing the head of the Department of Cyber Information Security of Ukraine, Illia Vitiuk.
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AZ Supreme Court Orders Hearing on Kari Lake’s Signature Verification Issue, Denies Attorney Fees
On Thursday, the Arizona Supreme Court ordered court proceedings to take place “forthwith” regarding Kari Lake’s election challenge on Maricopa County’s alleged violations of its signature verification practices in last year’s general election, while granting one sanction but denying attorneys’ fees requested by the defendants.
Lake, the Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee, fell about 17,000 votes short in the 2022 election against then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. She is suing Hobbs, who is the current Democratic governor, in addition to current Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Maricopa County election officials, and is requesting that the election results be invalidated or that she be declared the winner.
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Biden to Make Sure Criminals in Jail Vote for Him
by Daniel Greenfield
Friday was a good day for criminals. Just like every day in the Biden administration.
Not that Biden and his pro-crime administration calls them criminals. In the 2,500 word statement, the term “criminal” never appears once. Neither do “felon”, “offender” or “convict”. Never mind “murderer”, “rapist” or “mugger”. Such hurtful language would be insensitive.
Instead the Biden administration has adopted the awkward pro-crime euphemism of referring to criminals as “justice-involved persons”, “incarcerated persons” and the even more elongated “eligible persons with criminal history records”. By “eligible”, Biden doesn’t mean bachelors.
What is Biden offering these “justice-involved persons”, who are not prosecutors or corrections officers, but robbers, con artists and pedophiles? Free stuff at taxpayer expense.
Are you a thug shortly to be on the loose? Apply for food stamps directly from your cell. The Biden administration will be sending “guidance” to agencies handing out food stamps to “accept and process SNAP applications before someone is released from jail or prison”.
What else does Biden have for the Murderers, Muggers and Molesters of America? The administration’s “strategic plan supports justice-involved individuals” with expanded “access to health care”, “affordable housing”, “educational opportunities”, “food and subsistence benefits”, “job opportunities and access to business capital”, and “banking and other financial services”.
Why even bother being a law-abiding citizen when all of this is waiting for you?
Biden is “expanding access to” bank accounts for “justice-involved persons” and giving “incarcerated persons” more access to Medicare and Medicaid, and tips on voting Democrat.
That guy who picked your pocket: he’s getting a voter guide with all the D’s marked in red…
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Biden Admin Working on Backdoor Ban of Hunting and Fishing
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is working with radical environmentalist groups to develop a backdoor ban on hunting and fishing across large parts of the country.
The move would strip American citizens of their rights to hunt and fish on federal land.
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Biden Admins Want America to Lead the Way on Digital ID
While acknowledging the importance of creating standards in dominating technology, concerns about privacy arise as the White House pushes for the US to lead in developing standards for digital ID, something that will further normalize the idea.
The Biden administration fears a potential decline in America’s economic dominance if its ability to create standards weakens. Government officials have observed a shrinking domestic standards workforce amidst a growing number of standards bodies.
The establishment of the National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies aims to give the country an edge in standards-making through collaboration between businesses and the public. However, privacy advocates will question whether the strategy’s intentions are truly in the best interest of citizens.
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Billionaire Dem Mega-Donor Bankrolling Trump Accuser’s Rape Lawsuit Visited Epstein’s Private Island
A billionaire Democratic mega-donor who’s currently bankrolling a rape lawsuit against former President Donald Trump visited the infamous private island of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and was scheduled to stay at his Manhattan townhouse in 2014, according to a report published Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal obtained documents that show Reid Hoffman, a founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn, made a trip to Epstein’s island in the Caribbean, Little St. James — also known as “pedophile island” — where Epstein and his associates were accused of trafficking and sexually abusing underage girls.
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Davis Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Charges
The man arrested in connection with three stabbings — two fatal, one attempted — in Davis over the course of the last week appeared for the first time in Yolo County court Friday, pleading not guilty to any charges.
Appearing alongside a public defender, Carlos Dominguez, a 21-year-old former UC Davis student, was read his charges: two counts of murder and another of attempted murder, with enhancements for the premeditated and violent nature of his alleged crimes.
The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office also requested special circumstances “for multiple murders, in that Carlos Reales Dominguez murdered more than one person.” If approved, prosecutors could pursue the death penalty or life without parole.
In a statement Friday, the district attorney’s office said “the decision regarding whether to pursue the death penalty will be made at [a] later date.”
Judge Daniel Wolk announced Dominguez would be held without bail as his case continues through the court system. Dominguez’s public defender argued to reduce bail to $4 million, but Wolk ruled otherwise.
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Developing: Large Fire Follows Reported Explosion at Plant Near Deer Park
Harris County — At least two injuries are reported following an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant near Deer Park, according to Harris County officials.
The fire broke out shortly before 3 p.m. Friday at the plant, located in the 5900 block of State Highway 225.
All employees have been evacuated.
Harris County Fire Marshal and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are responding to the scene.
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Elon Musk Weighs in on ‘Strange’ Ballot Irregularities Exposed in Maricopa County
Twitter boss Elon Musk has responded to the bombshell data that exposes major irregularities in Arizona’s Maricopa County.
Explosive new data from Maricopa County reveals that 15 times more 2022 midterm ballots were rejected on Election Day than those that were mailed in.
As regular Slay News readers will likely be aware, Republican voters prefer to vote in person on Election Day while mail-in ballots are mostly used by Democrats.
As Arizona’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake pointed out, Maricopa County has also been unable to provide a chain of custody for a large number of ballots.
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Emails Expose Anti-Trump Agenda Behind 51 Intel Officials’ Letter on Hunter Biden Laptop
Newly emerged emails have exposed the disturbing anti-Trump agenda behind the now-infamous letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that stated reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop were “Russian disinformation.”
According to an email exchange between former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell and former CIA Director John Brennan, top intel officials wanted to cast doubt on the story to help Democrat President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Morell, the coauthor of the infamous statement, recruited influential figures in the intelligence community to sign the letter to give then-candidate Joe Biden a “talking point” during his debate with President Donald Trump, the emails show.
The email exchange from October 19, 2020, reveals Morell’s behind-the-scenes efforts to solicit signatories from the intelligence community to help the Biden campaign.
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FBI Caught Spying on Virginia Catholic Church
Democrat President Joe Biden’s FBI has been caught spying on a Catholic Church in Virginia, according to reports.
The spying revelation comes after Slay News previously reported that the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) have been targeting traditional Catholics.
In February, it emerged that the FBI sent out a memo warning agents of the dangerous “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology” that was gaining popularity in the country.
The memo was posted at UncoverDC.com by former FBI special agent Kyle Seraphin.
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Fox News Suffers Ratings ‘Bloodbath’ After Tucker Carlson Ouster
Fox News is contending with a steep ratings drop after firing star anchor Tucker Carlson.
In the first week after Carlson’s ouster on April 24, the channel’s primetime viewership fell 29.6 percent to 1.449 million viewers, coming in third among cable networks, according to figures from Nielsen.
Viewership for the network’s 8 p.m. time slot was down 47 percent overall for that week, according to an analysis from former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. The analysis averaged the viewership from the first week of his absence and compared it with the last week he was on air. Among the key demographic of 25-54 year olds, ratings were down a whopping 59 percent.
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‘I’ll Pardon Julian Assange’: US Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr Makes Big Promise
US Presidential Elections 2024 candidate and former US President John F Kennedy’s nephew Robert F Kennedy Jr said he will pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he makes it to the White House. He added that he will investigate the corruption and the crimes exposed by WikiLeaks. He added America does not imprison dissidents.
The US Presidential Elections 2024 candidate wrote: “Instead of championing free speech, the US actively persecutes journalists and whistleblowers. I’ll pardon brave truth-tells like Julian Assange and investigate the corruption and crimes they exposed. This isn’t the Soviet Union. The America I love doesn’t imprison dissidents”.
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Jeffrey Epstein Claimed He Was Managing Money for Bill Gates — Gates Denies Charge
The Wall Street Journal has released the second part of its Jeffrey Epstein document dump and Bill Gates does not look good.
Neither does Bill Clinton’s former Treasury Secretary and onetime Harvard University president Larry Summers.
It also spells doom for LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, a major Democrat donor and anti-Trump activist.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is spearheading an investigation into why the U.S. Marshals Service was instructed to “avoid” arresting protesters camped outside a Supreme Court justices’ private residence, “despite the actions clearly violating federal law.”
In March, Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., presented the U.S. Marshals Service training protocol during a congressional hearing that revealed guards were told to refrain from arresting protesters at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home after the leaked Dobbs decision sparked outrage from pro-abortion activists. During the hearing, Britt shared the protocol with Attorney General Merrick Garland, but he claimed to have never seen the slides before.
The Marshals parked outside Kavanaugh’s home were reportedly told to “avoid, unless absolutely necessary, criminal enforcement action involving the protest or protesters, particularly on public space,” prompting Jordan to launch a probe into the directives.
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JPMorgan Chase is Warned to Back Off Political and Ideological Censorship
A group of 19 Republican attorneys general, spearheaded by Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron, have recently issued a warning to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The bank has been accused of engaging in discrimination against customers based on their political and religious affiliations.
In their letter, the Attorneys General contend that Chase has repeatedly targeted certain customers due to their religious or political views, despite its public declarations of inclusivity and openness. They argue that this inclusivity has not been consistently extended to all customers.
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A Chicago thug made a critical mistake during his latest crime spree.
He left the Democrat-controlled city and Cook County and crossed into the suburbs in DuPage County.
George Soros-funded Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot have no power there, as the career criminal learned the hard way.
23-year-old Emanuel Embry carjacked a pregnant woman in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
Judge Michael Reidy taught Embry a lesson he will never forget and just sentenced him to 40 years in prison.
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Lawsuit Hits Entities Accused of “Mass Surveillance and Censorship Operation”
On Tuesday, America First Legal (AFL) nonprofit sued people behind the Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project in a federal class action, accusing them of conspiring with the US government to carry out online censorship on a mass scale.
AFL filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Health Freedom Louisiana co-director, Jill Hines, and The Gateway Pundit news site founder Jim Hoft.
The defendants — the Stanford Internet Observatory, its director, and research manager, Alex Stamos and Renée DiResta, University of Washington’s Dr. Kate Starbird, Graphika (a social media analytics company), and the Atlantic Research Council’s Digital Forensic Lab — are alleged to have in 2020 monitored 859 million and tracked 22 million posts as “candidates” for censorship on Twitter along — in the time before the ownership change.
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Matt Gaetz Assaulted by Deranged Biden Donor in Florida, Cops Arrest Woman on Battery Charges
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was assaulted by a deranged Biden donor during a festival in Florida.
The Tallahassee woman, Selena Chambers, was arrested by police and has been charged with battery.
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Microsoft Forces Edge on Users: Outlook and Teams to Override Default Browser Preferences on Windows
In yet another attempt to force users to use Edge browser, Microsoft has begun notifying IT admins that Outlook and Teams will ignore the default browser users have set on Windows and open links in Edge.
“Web links from Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts and Microsoft (MSA) accounts in the Outlook for Windows app will open in Microsoft Edge in a single view showing the opened link side-by-side with the email it came from,” the message to IT admins reads.
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MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan slammed CNN over the network’s decision to host a town hall with former President Donald Trump next week. Hasan said:
“I do hope CNN chief Chris Licht doesn’t have to end up apologizing for giving Trump this platform in the same way that his predecessor Jeff Zucker had to apologize for running all those Trump rallies uninterrupted on CNN back in 2016.
“Personally I wouldn’t interview a man who has used live interviews to incite violence and tell lies.” Hasan then gave up the game and admitted Trump would run over the CNN host. “Obviously each of them requires follow-ups. You can’t just ask one and then move on,” he said before calling Trump “a master of both dissembling and deflecting, especially on live TV when it’s much harder to fact-check him in real-time, and in front of an audience too, which will include his supporters.”
“So good luck, CNN, but I wish you weren’t doing this.”
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav overruled the MSNBC hack during a Friday appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box with Joe Kernen.
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Pfizer Reports Massive Drop in Revenue as COVID Vaccine Sales Crash
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has just revealed that its revenue dropped dramatically in the first quarter of 2023.
The drop is primarily due to COVID-19 vaccine sales plummeting.
The company reported $18.3 billion in revenue.
The figure is a significant drop from the $25.6 billion the company raked in during the first quarter of 2022.
Pfizer made just $7.1 billion from its COVID-19 shots and pill.
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Pollak: The Mainstream Media Have ‘Tucker Derangement Syndrome’
They can’t stop talking about Tucker Carlson, because they need to create a devil to convince themselves that they are angels.
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In a statement on Monday, Cal-Berkley sociology professor Elizabeth Hoover confirmed she is not actually Native American as she claimed her ‘whole life.’
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Shake Shack announced new plant-based options set for all of its 260 US locations. Diners can feast on a meatless burger and a dairy-free milkshake and frozen custard made with AI-generated milk.
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Soros-Backed Prosecutor Mired in Scandal Resigns From Office
An embattled George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis resigned Thursday amid a legal effort by Missouri’s attorney general to fire her for allegedly neglecting her duties.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, the city’s top prosecutor, is stepping down following repeated, bipartisan calls for her resignation from officials across the state.
Gardner’s office tweeted her resignation letter, which was addressed to the people of St. Louis.
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Soros Fund Management, along with Fortress Investment Group, are closing a deal to take over the media company for $400 million. Vice, which was valued at $5.7 billion in 2017, had been considering filing for bankruptcy, the New York Times reported on May 1.
The investment firms were the top lenders to the indebted media group, which has struggled to turn a profit in recent years.
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The far-left district attorney for Travis County, Texas, which encompasses the capital city of Austin, has dropped all charges against the organizer of a left-wing protest that shutdown proceedings in the Texas House earlier this week.
According to local NBC affiliate KXAN, District Attorney Jose Garza dropped the assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest and disrupting a public meeting charges against Texas Freedom Network (TFN) organizing director Adri Pérez after he was arrested at the state Capitol on Tuesday while protesting against a bill that would ban child gender surgery.
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FIRST ON FOX: The mother of a sheriff’s deputy killed in a car crash on the job in Austin, Texas, is speaking out after she says she learned from a friend that the progressive district attorney would not be pressing charges against the other driver in a move she called “unconscionable.”
“I was stunned, I didn’t know what to say,” Nancy Korzilius told Fox News Digital about the moment in January she found out through a friend, who heard it on the radio, that the Travis County District Attorney’s Office would not impanel a grand jury after the crash that killed her son, 32-year-old Travis County Sheriff Sr. Deputy Christopher Korzilius, in March 2020 in the early morning hours after St. Patrick’s Day.
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U.S Olympic Gold Medalist Dies Suddenly at 32
American Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie has tragically died suddenly at just 32 years old.
The celebrated runner won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Bowie’s death was announced Wednesday by USA Track and Field and confirmed by her management company.
No cause of death was given.
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Valuetainment CEO Sweetens Tucker Carlson’s $100 Million Offer: ‘No Handcuffs and Muzzles’
Valuetainment CEO Patrick Bet-David has sweetened the $100 million offer he made ex-Fox News star Tucker Carlson to join his media company.
Bet-David says his massive five-year deal would “get the real Tucker with no handcuffs and muzzles.”
As Slay News previously reported, Bet-David wants to sign Carlson to effectively run Valuetainment.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is America’s Artificial Intelligence Czar
The White House has announced a plan to crack down on artificial intelligence. The effort will be led by Vice President Kamala Harris and will have a budget of $140 million.
There have been concerns from industry experts that the technology could have negative consequences but there is debate about the level of regulation needed — and who exactly should regulate it.
That’s now up to Vice President Harris.
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Vivek Ramaswamy Paid to Get Soros Connection Erased From Wikipedia Page: Report
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly paid to have his Wikipedia page “scrubbed” of potentially politically damaging details about his past.
Mediaite is reporting that the page now includes a warning that the article has “multiple issues,” “contains paid contributions” and “may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia’s content policies, particularly neutral point of view.”
The Wikipedia article’s version history shows that in February, an editor identified by Mediaite as Jhofferman removed lines about Ramaswamy receiving a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2011.
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Voters Think Biden Isn’t Calling the Shots in the White House: Poll
A majority of likely voters believe that President Joe Biden is not the driving figure behind key decisions from the White House and that his staffers are making decisions for him.
Fifty-five percent of likely U.S. voters said that “others are making decisions for” Biden in a recent Rasmussen Reports survey, released Friday. By contrast, just 38% believe he is “really doing the job of president.”
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., left one Biden administration official without words Wednesday when he pressed him to answer one simple question: How much would spending $50 trillion in American taxpayer money to become carbon-neutral lower global temperatures?
“If we spend $50 trillion to become carbon-neutral by 2050 in the United States of America, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?” Kennedy asked Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.
Turk appeared unable to provide a specific number, and instead began arguing that the U.S. needed to do everything it could to reduce carbon emissions before being interrupted by Kennedy pressing for an answer to the question.
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Canada Considers Expelling Chinese Diplomats Over Intelligence Report
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister said Thursday the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over an intelligence agency report saying one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker.
Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said her department was summoning China’s ambassador to a meeting to underline that Canada won’t tolerate such interference.
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Documents Show How CBC Leaned on Twitter to Censor Content
Journalist Matt Taibbi has corroborated claims made by Rebel News that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) coerced Twitter to suppress voices and organizations it found disagreeable, even going as far as threatening litigation if the social media platform failed to oblige.
Earlier this week, Rebel News released documents indicating that the CBC exerted pressure on Twitter to silence specific individuals and groups, many of whom have been criticized by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Crown Princess Mary of Denmark donned her army uniform today as she took part in a Home Guard Parade in Copenhagen.
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At End to the War Could Boost Polish Investments in Ukraine 25-Fold
A quick end to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine could provide Poland with an opportunity to boost its investments in Ukraine, according to Polish Economic Institute’s (PIE) expert Dawid Sulkowski.
Sulkowski estimated that Poland’s direct investments in Ukraine could increase by as much as 25 times within five years of the war’s end.
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Belgian Authorities Detain 7 Suspected ISIS Sympathizers for Terrorist Plot
Authorities have detained seven people, most of them Chechen origin, on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office said Thursday.
The office said in a statement that the suspects had not yet selected a precise target but police decided to pick them for questioning anyway.
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Finland Ready to Welcome US Bases
Helsinki is allegedly already in talks with Washington on a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) that would allow US troops to freely deploy to the newly admitted NATO state, a Finnish foreign-affairs official, Mikael Antell, has told the Helsingin Sanomat (HS) newspaper.
The outlet reported that Antell, who serves as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ deputy director-general for political affairs, is leading the bilateral negotiations and that the latest round of discussions took place in the Finnish capital last week.
According to Antell, the agreement is meant to augment Finland’s current NATO membership, which it was granted in April, and to solidify the country’s deterrent and defense capabilities through US presence and advance stationing of defense equipment.
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France: Pensioner Sentenced to Reeducation Over Insulting President Macron
A 77-year-old man has been sentenced to reeducation by a French court after reportedly disrespecting the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron.
The unnamed elder was convicted by the court of showing contempt for French leader Emmanuel Macron in Eure, France.
Unlike many other Western nations, it is an offence in France to show “contempt for public officials”, with those who fall foul of the law facing the possibility of spending up to one year behind bars and a hefty fine of over $15,000.
According to a report by news portal Actu.fr, the 77-year-old was found to have fallen foul of this law by the court by hanging a banner outside his house calling out the French head of state.
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French Police Regularly Abusing Rights of Anti-Macron Protesters, Watchdog Says
Anti-Macron protesters are regularly having their fundamental rights abused by French police, one watchdog in the country has said.
Dominique Simonnot, the head of the Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty — an independent state body in France — has denounced the treatment of those protesting President Emmanuel Macron at the hands of police as regularly violating their fundamental rights.
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German Government Admits There’s No Evidence Face Masks Work
The German government’s top health officials have admitted that no evidence exists to suggest that the use of face masks was effective during the pandemic.
Pressure has been mounting on Germany’s Health Ministry to provide evidence that supported the nation’s mask mandates.
Until now, health officials have refused to provide studies that show masking helps stop the spread of Covid or similar viruses.
However, Bundestag Vice-President Wolfgang Kubicki has just used his parliamentary prerogatives to put a question to the Health Ministry and compel officials to answer.
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Germany: Suspect ‘Known to Police’ Stabs Multiple Children at Berlin Christian School
A man with a lengthy criminal history was arrested after launching a brutal stabbing rampage that left multiple children seriously injured at a Christian school in Germany this week, according to reports.
The horrifying incident unfolded at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday in Berlin.
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Great Reset: Companies Try Train Children to Eat Bugs in Switzerland
Companies in Switzerland are trying to train children to eat insects to build up a future customer base for the Great Reset-style protein.
Rather than peddling delightful Swiss chocolate, some companies in Switzerland are actively attempting to try to convince children to munch down on some bugs instead.
In a broadly sympathetic piece from the Wall Street Journal — a supposedly right-leaning American newspaper — bug food businessmen were followed around as they pushed their insect wares on mostly grossed-out kids.
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The Irish government has decided to move forward with the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offenses) Bill 2022, despite the fact that a majority of public consultation responses were against the proposal. The bill, which was initiated in October 2022, aims to address “hate speech” in the country.
The public consultation, held in 2019, offered individuals the chance to express their views on the matter through either letter submissions or survey responses. Gript, a news outlet, conducted an analysis of the 3,597 submissions received during the consultation process. The results indicated that 73% of the respondents opposed the implementation of a hate speech law in Ireland.
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Plans to Protect Children and Support Parents Endorsed by Speaker of Polish Parliament
The “Protect children, support parents” legislative initiative to prevent the sexualization of young children has been endorsed by Elzbieta Witek, the speaker of the Polish parliament.
According to Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, the early sexualization of children leads to psychological problems and later social problems. He argued that there need to be legal barriers against such practices in schools and that “outlandish ideas we don’t wish to comment on are not realized at the expense of our children.” Kaczynski added that “adults have the right to make their own decisions regarding their contacts, but children must be protected.”
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Poland Seeks U.S. Help in Investigating Stray Missile Debris Found in North of the Country
Poland has requested assistance from the United States to investigate missile debris found in northern Poland near Bydgoszcz, according to the rmf24.pl portal.
The Polish authorities and their U.S. counterparts are working together to determine how and when the Russian-made missile ended up there.
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Public Overwhelmingly Rejects Having Fewer Children, Giving Up Meat for Green Agenda, Poll Finds
Politicians claim powerful mandates to fundamentally remake society in pursuance of green politics, but research suggests public support is more conceptual and enthusiasm ebbs away if policies mean fundamentally changing the way we live.
There is a major gulf between a willingness to return to what might be considered traditional living if it benefits the environment — only eating in-season fruit and vegetables, giving up ‘single use’ plastics and the like — and drastic civilisational change like not having children and giving up eating meat, research finds.
Commissioned by The Guardian, a poll of 9,000 residents in European nations the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark finds people want to do more to live in a good environment, but overwhelmingly reject extremist positions adopted by green zealots.
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Conservative politicians have been discovering that their actions have consequences on Friday with the progressive, not actually very conservative party losing big in England’s local elections.
Hundreds of local council seats appear to have been lost by Britain’s ruling Conservative Party after elections in England on Thursday, with preliminary results showing other establishment parties picking up seats as Tory voters decided to stay home.
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Eco-zealots from Just Stop Oil are plotting a graffiti attack on a monument in The Mall during the Coronation of King Charles.
Police have vowed hardline action against the hated eco mob, who are targeting memorials.
Just Stop Oil hope their action today will be their crowning ‘masterpiece’, although police hope to stomp out any of their attempts.
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UK: King Charles III’s Coronation is a Surveillance Nightmare
On Wednesday, the London (Metropolitan) police appeared to still be considering using its live facial recognition system during the coronation of the UK’s new king, and only a short while later — in fact, the same day — they confirmed that this would actually be the case.
This form of mass surveillance will be used in central London during the ceremony and will mostly consist of technology provided by Hikvision, a controversial company due to its tech being used in labor camps in China.
Ahead of the confirmation of this news, UK civil liberties nonprofit Big Brother Watch said on Twitter the police were “testing public opinion” by making the announcement about the possible deployment of the tech.
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UK: Pics: King Charles Makes Surprise Visit to Greet Crowds Outside Palace in Person
Well-wishers and Royal fans are already building in number in central London ahead of Saturday’s coronation, with some by Buckingham Palace surprised with an unannounced visit by the King.
King Charles III made a surprise walkabout on The Mall outside Buckingham Palace on Friday afternoon, greeting crowds and chatting with well-wishers. British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports cheers could be heard as the King got out of his car, and that some in the crowd shouted the traditional British salutation “God save the King”.
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UK: Rishi Sunak Defiant Despite Tories Suffering Major Losses in Local Elections
Labour claimed its victories so far suggest Sir Keir Starmer will be able to enter No 10 after a national vote.
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Youth Gangs ‘Bike-Jacking’ Motorcycle Riders in French City
Motorcycle riders in one French town are being targeted by gangs of ‘youths’ carrying out ‘bike-jackings,’ according to reports.
At least three such incidents have unfolded in the past week in Valence, a commune in the department of Drôme.
On Monday evening, a 49-year-old man was riding his two-wheeler on rue Mozart in the Fontbarlettes district when he was surrounded by at least five ‘young people’ who robbed him and stole his motorcycle, France Bleu reports.
Police believe the same suspects are responsible for similar ambushes on a nearby street last week.
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China: Kremlin Drone Attack Crossed a ‘Red Line’ in Ukraine War
Chinese state media described the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin as the crossing of a “red line” in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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NATO Believes Russia Has Already Set Explosives on Europe’s Undersea Pipes, Cables: Report
NATO leaders believe it is “obvious” why Russia has been showing such interest in the undersea infrastructure of European nations and there is suspicion that cables and pipes may already have been “mined”, a report claims.
Russian forces have mined European critical infrastructure with explosives, NATO leaders allegedly believe according to an establishment media report citing military insiders and an ongoing major investigation into Russian maritime activity by a group of Nordic broadcasters.
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Punches appeared to be thrown at the gathering in Ankara on Thursday after the unnamed man ripped the item from the hands of Oleksandr Marikovsky, who had been posing for a photo.
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Two loud explosions were heard in Kyiv early this morning after Russia threatened retaliation over claims of Ukrainian drone strikes aimed at assassinating Putin, local media reported.
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Putin’s Night Wolves Biker Gang Headed to Berlin for WWII Victory Celebration
The Night Wolves motorcycle club has set out from Moscow in an attempt to reach Berlin for the Victory Day celebrations. However, their support for Putin’s war in Ukraine means that neither Poland nor Germany will facilitate their passage.
The annual journey undertaken by the biker club is unlikely to reach its destination this time since Ukrainian allies are wary of endorsing a Russian propaganda campaign.
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Russia Has No Choice But to ‘Physically Eliminate’ Zelensky After ‘Drone Attack’, Says Kremlin
A “severe and inevitable punishment” is coming to Ukraine for a blast at the Kremlin overnight into Wednesday, top allies of Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin have said, with one promising a physical elimination of Ukrainian President Zelensky.
A chorus of Kremlin figures have spoken out against what the Russian state claims was a Ukrainian attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, with dark vows of revenge peppered among the comments. Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev compared Zelensky to Adolf Hitler and said he and his “clique” would have to be eliminated.
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Russia Unable to Protect Its Railways, Crucial for Their War Effort, From Sabotage: UK
Russia has experienced a recent “uptick in rail accidents” near the Ukraine border and the country will struggle to protect its internal railway system it relies on to move military supplies, a British intelligence report says.
Russia’s internal security services “will highly likely remain unable to fully protect Russia’s vast and vulnerable rail networks from attack”, the British government has said, in remarks that come just days after a major rail crash near the Ukrainian border which saw track blasted with explosives, causing the derailment and burning of an oil tanker train.
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Russia Seeks Arrest of Ukrainian Intelligence Chief in Connection With Bridge Explosion
A Moscow court on April 21 issued an arrest warrant for Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, on the charge of creating a terrorist group, a terrorist act, and illegal possession of explosives and firearms. Media reports cited sources close to law enforcement as saying the arrest warrant was linked to an explosion that damaged a Russian-built bridge that connects Russia to Ukraine’s Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula in October 2022. Ukrainian officials have not said who carried out the attack. Budanov called Russia’s move to arrest him “a great indication of our great job.”
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Ukraine Puts Hungary’s OTP Bank on ‘International War Sponsor’ List
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Agency (NACA) has placed the Hungarian OTP Bank Group on its list of “international war sponsors” for continuing to cooperate with Russian entities, the agency’s press service said on Thursday.
The OTP Group also confirmed the fact of the classification to MTI, stressing that the OTP Group operates in compliance with all international sanctions, measures, and local laws in all its markets, including Russia.
In a press release, NACA justified its decision by saying that the Hungarian bank continues to operate in Russia and is acting under the provisions of a lending law to which the Russian authorities of Donetsk and Luhansk regions are subject to. According to NACA, OTP provides loans to members of the Russian army on “favorable terms,” including the possibility of deferring payments when repaying loans.
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Wagner chief Prigozhin raged against Sergei Shoigu and chief of Russia’s army high commander General Valery Gerasimov in a graphic video posted on Telegram yesterday.
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B Upendran | HENB | Ballari, Karnataka | May 5, 2023:: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday raised ‘The Kerala Story’ in his Karnataka Assembly election campaign speech in Ballari and said that the movie exposes the terror elements. He also accused Congress of opposing the film that exposes the terror truth. He meant to say that Islamic terrorism that was indoctrinated in the minds of a section of Muslim people who entrapped the Hindu girls in a love Jihad truce to recruit them for the terror network of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). At least the released film ‘The Kerala Story’ says so.
Though, once then Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the fact of ‘Love Jihad’ was baseless, In Sept 2024, Rajnath Singh asked the media, ‘What is love jihad?’ Now, in the trail of Hindutva as needed in the election campaign of Karnataka, PM Modi conceded the fact of ‘Kerala Story’ both related to ‘Love Jihad’ and ‘Jihadi terrorism’.
The Prime Minister said that The Kerala Story is based on terror conspiracy. “It shows the ugly truth of terrorism and exposes terrorists’ design. The world is tensed due to the danger of Terrorism. Even in India we have suffered because of Terror activities. Terrorism is anti-Humanity. Terrorism is anti-Development. But, Congress is opposing the film made on terrorism and standing with terror tendencies. Congress has shielded terrorism for the vote bank,” he alleged.
He added, “I am surprised to see that Congress has succumbed to terrorism for the sake of its vote bank. Can such a party ever save Karnataka? In the atmosphere of terror, the industry, IT industry, agriculture, farming and glorious culture here will be destroyed.”
PM Modi said that the security system, law, and order is the most important requirement to make Karnataka the number one state of the country. “It is equally important for Karnataka to remain free from terrorism. BJP has always been tough against terrorism. But Congress gets stomach ache whenever action is taken on terrorism,” he said.
‘The Kerala Story’ starring Adah Sharma was released in cinemas on Friday and is portrayed as “unearthing” the events behind “approximately 32,000 women” allegedly going missing from Kerala.
As per Bollywood Hungama, ‘The Kerala Story’ has crossed its first-day box-office collection over 7.5 crores as bumper start. The ABP Live’s ‘Kerala Story Review’, it is said that, the ‘Film Not For The Faint-Hearted’.
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Australia PM Says ‘Frustrated’ Over Continued Detention of Julian Assange
SYDNEY, May 5 (Reuters) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday he was frustrated for not yet finding a diplomatic fix over the continued detention of Julian Assange and that he remained concerned about the mental health of the WikiLeaks’ founder.
“I know it’s frustrating, I share the frustration,” Albanese told ABC television from London where Assange is being held pending a U.S. extradition case.
“I can’t do more than make very clear what my position is and the U.S. administration is certainly very aware of what the Australian government’s position is. There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration.”
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Inversion of reality is one way to put it: in Australia, the eSafety commissioner has made bizarre comments related to end-to-end encryption, comparing those companies who won’t effectively remove this security feature (that protects communications from spying) to… somebody “leaving a home open to an intruder.”
Strong encryption is there precisely to keep all “actors” — bad and otherwise — out of where they don’t belong, that is, people’s private communications (their “online home”) — but the commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, seems to think, in a quote to Politico, that unless the door is actually left open (by virtue of tainting encryption with software backdoors) — bad actors will get in. (?!)
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Brazil’s “fake news” censorship law is so contentious that even pro-censorship Google has been campaigning against it. But as the final vote on the law draws near, the Brazilian government and the country’s Supreme Court are now shutting down this criticism and bizarrely claiming that it’s doing so to protect freedom of expression.
Recently, Google started warning Brazilian users on its homepage that the fake news law could “increase confusion about what is true or a lie.” Shortly after posting this criticism, activist group Sleeping Giants Brasil complained that Google was “using its own platform to attack PL [the fake news law].”
This complaint got the attention of Brazil’s Justice Minister, Flavio Dino, who flagged Google to a government agency for potential “abusive practices.”
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“Put Them in Lightfoot’s Neighborhood”: Black Residents Revolt Over Chicago’s Migrant Housing Plan
Black residents revolted in Chicago over a plan to house migrants in their community telling failed Mayor Lori Lightfoot to put them in her neighborhood. Officials tried to deliver a presentation on placing the migrants in a shuttered school, but before city officials could open their mouths the residents told them to pound sand.
Audience members started yelling, “We don’t care. We don’t want them here. Send them back. Close the border.” One even had a sign that said, “Build the wall 2024.”
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700,000 Migrants Waiting to Storm Border When Biden Ends Title 42 Next Week
An estimated 700,000 migrants are currently in Mexico waiting for Democrat President Joe Biden to end Title 42 on May 11.
As soon as President Donald Trump’s successful policy ends, the migrants are expected to storm the Southern Border and flood into the United States.
Trump invoked the public health authority known as Title 42 at the border in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic.
The policy has been ensuring that federal immigration officials have been able to quickly return millions of illegal aliens to Mexico over the last three years.
However, Biden will end Title 42 on May 11 and expand the administration’s Catch and Release network to quickly move border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior.
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A Chicago reporter issued a stark warning on public safety after employees working at a luxury hotel housing migrants barred him from entering during a heated exchange caught on camera.
William Kelly spoke with workers at the Inn of Chicago, requesting additional information about the status of the hotel, but the employees quickly told him it was closed and he was not welcome because he wasn’t a “resident” at the hotel.
Kelly recounted the “hostile” exchange with the individuals on “Fox & Friends First” and his broader concerns surrounding how using the hotel as a migrant facility could impact the Windy City’s already-rampant crime.
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DC Reaches Migrant Housing Capacity, Unable to Accept New Families: Officials
Washington, D.C., officials say their city is unable to accept new migrants, as they officially reached their capacity for housing migrant families.
D.C.’s Department of Human Services (DHS) said that the Office of Migrant Services’ (OHS) temporary lodging program for families has been full as of April 26.
“New intakes are temporarily paused at this time while we continue our work helping families identify pathways for long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency based on their needs, both inside and outside the region,” DHS said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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FIRST ON FOX — A far-left nonprofit accused of siding with criminals for its work to deplete the justice system while working inside local prosecution offices is nearly entirely funded by federal government agencies, including Department of Justice.
The Vera Institute of Justice — a Soros-linked nonprofit — has received $290 million from the federal government over the last 12 months alone for its work in immigration — to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation — and the criminal justice system. If its current contracts are extended for the next four years, disbursements could reach over $1 billion.
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France: Elderly Victim Hit by Train After Being Shoved Off Platform by Illegal Migrant
An elderly victim was nearly killed after being thrown off a platform by an illegal migrant and hit by a train in France this week, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening in Gargenville, a commune in the department of Yvelines.
An “argument between two men” broke out on a train platform, according to Gargenville Mayor Yann Perron.
Suddenly, the younger male shoved the older man onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming freight train.
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Knife-Wielding African Migrant Terrorizes Passengers on Swiss Train
An African migrant wielding a knife was arrested after terrorizing passengers on a train in Switzerland this week, according to reports.
The harrowing incident unfolded at around 3 p.m. on Thursday in the canton of St. Gallen.
Transport police were alerted about a man “threatening” riders with a blade in hand on a train passing between the towns of Sargans and Bad Ragaz, Kantonspolizei St. Gallen explained in a statement.
Cantonal police were notified and prepared to board the train at Bad Ragaz, but the suspect disembarked and was arrested immediately at the station.
He was identified as a 25-year-old migrant from Eritrea, an East African country that has seen many of its citizens migrate to Switzerland.
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Majority of Germans Say Migrants Bring More Problems Than Benefits, Want Limit on Refugees
A new poll shows that a slight majority of Germans are turning against mass immigration, with 52 percent saying that they believe Germany should “take in fewer refugees,” an increase of 12 points since January 2020.
The results come just a week before a long-awaited migration summit that will involve federal and state governments meeting in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s office to discuss the ongoing crisis.
The poll, conducted for Infratest Dimap on behalf of ARD Tagesthemen and Die Welt, also asked respondents whether they see migrants as bringing more advantages or disadvantages. For 54 percent, they said the disadvantages of immigration outweigh the advantages, while only a third said that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
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Sweden Doubles Its Minimum Wage Requirement for Migrant Work Visas
The Swedish government has agreed to raise the minimum wage threshold required for migrants to obtain a work visa in the country.
From Oct. 1, migrants wanting to come to Sweden to work will need to secure employment with a salary of 26,560 Swedish krona (€2,347.15) per month, more than double the current requirement of SEK 13,000.
The move is expected to price out migrants with basic to no education and unskilled workers while still enabling professionals in specific fields to bring their expertise to the country’s workforce.
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Woman Dies After Migrant Boat Capsizes Off Lampedusa
(ANSA) — ROME, MAY 5 — A woman from Guinea drowned in waters off Lampedusa on Friday after the boat she was travelling on capsized.
46 other people also on board were rescued by finance police and disembarked together with the body on the tiny Sicilian island.
The rescued migrants and refugees said they were from Burkina Faso, Benin, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Gambia, Mali and Senegal, and included 12 women and 5 minors.
Their 7-m boat reportedly overturned when they stood up together on seeing the finance police patrol boat to call for help.
They said they had departed from Sfax in Tunisia at dawn on Thursday and that they had paid 1,500 Tunisian dinars (around 450 euros) for the sea crossing.
Earlier on Friday the coast guard intervened to rescue a group of 43 people including 14 women and 4 minors from Burkina Faso and Guinea from a boat adrift in waters off Lampedusa.
They were the first group to arrive by sea after a five-day hiatus due to bad weather.
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A new report shows that more than 40 states introduced bills or took steps to restrict teaching critical race theory or how teachers discuss racism and sexism in the classroom.
According to Education Weekly, “Since January 2021, 44 states have introduced bills or taken other steps that would restrict teaching critical race theory or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism, according to an Education Week analysis. Eighteen states have imposed these bans and restrictions either through legislation or other avenues.”
Ed Weekly highlighted Parents’ Choice Tennessee, a Franklin-based self-identified parents’ rights group, which sued Williamson County Schools administrators last year in July over the district’s curriculum. Parents’ Choice Tennessee claims that the curriculum’s teaching of critical race theory is in violation of state law and common core values.
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A video showed Boston Red Sox fans avoiding Bud Light at all costs during a packed Major League Baseball game as backlash to the Dylan Mulvaney advertisement continues.
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Colorado Families Sue School District for Encouraging Daughters to Join ‘Secret’ LGBTQ Club
Two Colorado families are suing their children’s school district over allegations that teachers and administrators encouraged their daughters to join an LGBTQ club and keep its activities “secret” from them.
Parents Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich, whose sixth grade daughters attend Wellington Middle-High School (WMS), sued educators at the Poudre School District Wednesday with the help of America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by the Daily Caller.
Not only were the activities of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) not disclosed to parents, those who led the club’s meetings actively encouraged students to keep discussions about polyamory, suicide, puberty blockers, transgenderism, gender identity, sexuality and name and pronoun changes secret from their parents.
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At the end of Florida’s 2023 legislative session, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scorched the media for using euphemisms instead of talking about how sex reassignment surgery “cut[s] off the private parts of a 14 or 15-year-old.”
DeSantis held a press conference Friday where he talked about the accomplishments from the legislative session. Among many other issues, Florida’s SB 254, which bans transgender treatments for minors, passed the legislature on Thursday and is expected to be signed by the governor soon.
One reporter began asking about “cultural issues” and if that’s what “American voters” want before DeSantis cut him off, wondering if people were being paid to press the issue of transgender children.
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Fired Teacher Sues School District After Refusing to Hide Students’ Gender Transitions From Parents
A California teacher is speaking out after suing her former school district, alleging it discriminated against her after she was fired for refusing to hide kids’ gender transitions from their parents.
Jessica Tapia, the Christian teacher who was fired, joined “Fox & Friends” alongside Advocates for Faith & Freedom Vice President Mariah Gondeiro to discuss the lawsuit and why she decided to take action after losing her job.
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Gay Bars Launch Boycott of Bud Light After CEO Disavowed Dylan Mulvaney Sealing Brand’s Fate
Several Chicago gay bars announced Friday they will not be selling Anheuser-Busch beverages in response to the company disavowing transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
Sidetrack Bar, in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, posted a message to their Instagram account: “In response to actions and statements taken by Anheuser-Busch which strongly bring into question their support of the LGBTQ+ community, Sidetrack will cease selling Bud, Bud Light and 312.
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GOP Demands Answers From Navy Over TikTok Drag Queen Used for Recruitment
Republican senators are demanding answers from the U.S. Navy for using a TikTok drag queen in a recruitment video.
As Slay News reported, Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley performs as a drag queen named “Harpy Daniels.”
In a November TikTok video that went viral this week, Kelley revealed that he would serve as the Navy’s first “digital ambassador.”
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In a message to faculty staff and students, CEO of Thomas Jefferson University, Joseph Cacchione said he was disappointed with the university’s president Dr. Mark Tykocinski for liking tweets that described gender reassignment surgery as “child mutilation” and those that questioned the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
This follows a recent trend of people not just being punished for their own speech on social media, but for liking the speech of others.
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Undercover journalist James O’Keefe has blown the whistle on a major scandal in Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration.
The Project Veritas founder has released a new undercover video that exposes how the dangerous “woke” agenda is playing out in America’s prisons.
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Protesters Storm DeSantis Office After Passage of ‘Racist’, ‘Transphobic’ Education Bill
Numerous arrests have been made after protesters stormed the office of Ron DeSantis over a “racist” and “transphobic” bill passed by Florida’s state legislature.
Protesters reportedly stormed the office of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis over the state’s passing of a bill that expands the Parental Rights in Education law, with the new reforms banning diversity programmes in state colleges as well as making it so that teachers do not have to refer to a child using their preferred pronouns.
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TikTok to Censor Climate Change “Misinformation”
TikTok marked Earth Day by beginning to censor climate change “misinformation.” The platform says it will begin deleting content that contradicts “scientific consensus.”
“On April 21, we will begin to ramp up enforcement of a new climate change misinformation policy which removes climate change misinformation that undermines well-established scientific consensus, such as content denying the existence of climate change or the factors that contribute to it,” the company said in a statement.
“As we do for all misinformation policies, we will work with independent fact-checking partners when applying this policy to help assess the accuracy of content.”
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Trans Activist Appears to Tout Smirnoff Relationship, Company Denies Partnership
Another beverage company, this time vodka retailer Smirnoff, appears to have hired a trans woman and drag queen as one of its paid partners in recent weeks.
Several recent Instagram posts from drag queen and trans woman “Maxine LaQueene” featured the official “Paid Partnership with Smirnoff” tags, denoting that the major liquor retailer has hired the biological male for promotional material.
In addition to being a promoter of drag and transgenderism, LaQueene is an outspoken LGBTQ activist who had recently been removed from the Texas state capitol building by police for disrupting a legislature vote on a trans bill.
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A Christian woman who was a mayoral candidate in London last year has won substantial damages in an unfair discrimination lawsuit she filed after her employer fired her for airing her belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Maureen Martin’s employer, London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q), fired her because of her view on marriage. She sued L&Q for unfair dismissal, as well as harassment and discrimination.
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WEF Calls for Ban on Car Parking Spots to Fight ‘Climate Change’
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling for a ban on car parking spots in order to meet its green agenda goals to fight “climate change.”
The plan would involve closing down parking lots and removing all on-street parking spots.
Klaus Schwab’s globalist organization argues that convenient parking slows down climate progress and will “hold back urban mobility.”
In a post on its website titled “These outdated mindsets and regulations are holding back urban mobility: Experts,” the WEF makes its case.
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WEF Member Calls for 86% Reduction in World’s Population
A celebrated member of the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) has called for a staggering 86 percent reduction in the population of humans, arguing that the goal can be achieved “peacefully.”
Dennis Meadows, one of the main authors of the Club of Rome’s 1972 pro-depopulation book “The Limits to Growth.”
Meadows is an honorary member of the Club of Rome and a member of the World Economic Forum.
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Meet King Charles, The Great Resetter
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A ‘MUST SEE’!!
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“The biggest thieves of all, the Winsdor Mafia”
Today, King Charles will be crowned. James Corbett describes details of his life and daily routines, and he really doesn’t like him or the “House of Winsdor”. For example, Charles has ten soft-boiled eggs boiled in the morning, so that if No. 5 is not enough, he can choose No. 6. This before his temperate bath in a golden tub and exactly one inch of toothpaste on his brush.
A highlight here is probably around minute 19, when Charles, in the presence of Klaus Schwab, initiates the Great Transition with a flowery speech in favor of the new communist-fascist regime that will replace the democracies. But there are many other royal honors, and on DR1, the coronation runs from 10.00 to 16.30.
As James Corbett points out, despite the meticulous press coverage, this family is largely beyond the reach of serious scrutiny or criticism from the ‘press officers’, although their every move is meticulously watched even outside England.
Pedophilia – Charles was in love with the pedophile Jimmy Saville and Andrew with the pedophile Epstein – and the murder of Princess Diana, which exemplifies the royal family’s centuries-old tradition of clearing obstacles with murder, and which Diana herself prophetically predicted.
Diana herself prophetically predicted. Moreover, there are so many oddities surrounding her death that anyone who unravels the chain of circumstantial evidence must conclude that the official story is a lie here too.
I write this as a monarchist, but as a Danish monarchist, because our royal family has behaved much more wisely than the English assembly of inbred Mafiosi.
If they can extricate themselves from the connection with the World Economic Forum and various awakened companies, which must have been inflicted on them by a particularly bad adviser, the world’s oldest continuously functioning royal family will not hear any bad words from me.
You don’t abolish Kronborg or the Jelling Stones just because they cost money to maintain. But watch the 30 minutes, James Corbett is extremely sharp and well prepared.
And then some related stuff:
Bad news for Britain on the eve of King Charles III’s coronation – 23% excess mortality – not a good omen for his reign.
“ANOTHER WEEK OF SHOCKINGLY HIGH EXCESS MORTALITY IN ENGLAND/WALES”.
The latest weekly data from England/Wales shows that the excess mortality rate is an alarming 22.9% This is a disaster. Something has gone seriously wrong. And it will not continue. We must realize that mass vaccination of the population with an experimental agent that had no data on long-term safety may be the cause of these excess deaths. If so, God help those who claimed it was “safe and effective”.
Peter Halligan
Prince Charles criticizes Danish cartoons
Prince Charles on Tuesday criticized the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and the “terrible” violence that followed their publication, and called on everyone to respect the religions of others.The Prince visited Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the premier Islamic institution in the Sunni world, on the second day of his visit to Egypt. He was accompanied by his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who wore a headscarf as she walked through the mosque. “The true hallmark of a civilized society is respect for minorities and strangers,” the Prince of Wales told around 800 people at Al-Azhar. /NBC
Will anyone be held accountable for the 300,000 Americans murdered by the COVID-19 shooting in 2021?
2021 will go down in history as the worst year for “death by lethal injection” because an estimated 300,000 people in the US were killed by lethal poison in injections. Lethal poison should only be injected into convicted criminals who have been given the death penalty in a court of law.
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Former British soldier reveals to King Charles
“The biggest thieves of all, the Winsdor Mafia.
https://rumble.com/v2m4ouc-former-british-soldier-exposes-king-charles.html
In 1988 Prince Philip uttered the following ‘If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.’
It seems that Charles didn’t fall far from the tree if one were to judge him by those he keeps as his associates.
I don’t know which is worse; a pure democracy where idiots are allowed to vote for which con-man will rule them, or a monarchy where the average idiot doesn’t have a say but is instead ruled by hereditary idiots.
England seems to have the worst of both worlds; idiots voting for their leaders, alongside hereditary idiots maintained for traditional and customary reasons. America jettisoned the hereditary idiots but then votes for them through a rotating cabal of hereditary dynasties who share power and pretends to be at odds with one another. Not sure exactly where Sweden falls, but having given the world Ms Thunberg, and Ikea you’re already batting 0 for 2.